For advocates and legal consultants

    Consultation fees, collected before the meeting

    For advocates and legal consultants whose day is court in the morning and chambers after. Clients book a paid consultation slot in your chamber hours, describe the matter on an intake form before they arrive, and your notes stay on a confidential record only your team can open.

    Free plan, no card and no call. One flat monthly price when you upgrade, zero commission on payments, cancel yourself in the app.

    Who this is for

    Written for the way legal consultations actually run

    • Advocates taking client consultations around court schedules
    • Legal consultants advising startups and small businesses
    • Chambers where a junior spends hours a day scheduling meetings
    • Lawyers tired of unpaid first meetings that go nowhere

    What operate1 replaces

    A booking tool, a payment link, a client spreadsheet and a reminders routine, folded into one account at one flat monthly price.

    Zero commission on every plan. You connect your own payment account and the money settles to you; we charge the subscription and nothing else.

    Three things that go wrong every week

    First consultations are free by habit, so the diary fills with people price-shopping advice they never intend to pay for.

    List the consultation with its fee. Payment at booking through your own account filters enquiries to people with a real matter, and the free-advice hour returns to billable work.

    The client arrives and spends the first twenty minutes narrating the matter from the beginning, in a slot you priced at thirty.

    An intake form collects the matter type, the parties and the story before the appointment. You read it in two minutes and the paid slot starts at the advice, not the preamble.

    Matter notes and client details are sensitive, and they live in a junior's notebook and a shared drive nobody has audited.

    Notes, intake answers and history sit on the client's record inside your account, with role-based access controlling who on the team can open what, and a full export available on request.

    How it works

    How a booking runs here

    1. Chamber hours go on the page

      Consultation types with their own duration and fee: a 30 minute first consultation, a one hour matter review. The page offers only your after-court hours.

    2. The client books and pays

      UPI, card or net banking through your own Razorpay account, Stripe for clients abroad. The slot confirms when the fee clears.

    3. The matter arrives before the client

      Intake answers land on the client's record. You walk into the consultation already knowing the matter type and the timeline.

    4. Notes stay on the record

      Your consultation notes, the payment and the history stay against the client, access-controlled. Email reminders go out at 24 hours and 2 hours.

    What you get on day one

    Consultation fees at booking

    Paid before the meeting through your own account, with zero operate1 commission on every plan. Price-shoppers filter themselves.

    The matter, in writing, in advance

    Intake forms collect matter type, parties and background before the slot. Answers file themselves on the record.

    Confidential notes, role-based access

    Notes and client details sit on records inside your account, with access controlled by role and a full data export available on request.

    Slots around court hours

    Offer chamber hours only. Closed days for hearing-heavy dates, buffers between consultations, and the page never promises what court will not allow.

    The matter's history in one place

    Every consultation, note and payment against the client, so the third meeting does not restart from the first.

    Cancellations on your terms

    A published cancellation window and fee percentage, applied automatically to paid bookings.

    Not built yet, named plainly

    Asked for by advocates, not built yet.

    • Document upload and e-signing. Intake forms collect written answers; case files and vakalatnama signatures stay outside operate1.
    • Case and hearing date management. This is a consultation booking and client record tool, not a case management system.
    • Video consultations with generated links. Paste your own Meet or Zoom link into the service description for remote consultations.
    • WhatsApp confirmations. Reminders and confirmations are email today; WhatsApp is on the roadmap.

    Questions legal consultations ask us

    Is client information kept confidential?

    Records live inside your account and access is role-based, so you decide which team members can open client records and notes. You can request a full export of your data at any time, and it is never sold or shared.

    Can I charge different fees for different consultation types?

    Yes. A first consultation, a matter review and a drafting discussion can each be listed with their own duration and fee, and the client pays the right amount at booking.

    What if court runs long and I need to cancel?

    You control the calendar. Block dates or hours whenever the cause list demands, and reschedule bookings with the client. Keeping heavy hearing days closed on the page prevents most collisions in the first place.

    Does this manage my cases and hearing dates?

    No, and we will not pretend otherwise. operate1 handles consultation bookings, fees and client records. Case files, hearing calendars and cause lists belong in your case management practice.

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    Take the next booking properly

    Built for advocates and legal consultants. The free plan needs no card and no call. Put your services on a page tonight and decide in the morning.

    One flat price for the whole team. Cancel yourself in the app and take your data with you.